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    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2025

    Deleted. Former content:

    Basic Research in Computer Science is an international research and PhD school within the areas of computer and information sciences, hosted by the Universities of Aarhus and Aalborg in Denmark, and funded partially by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation.

    diff, v2, current

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTime5 days ago

    There have been a lot of article deletions in recent times. What are the criteria being used?

    I’m curious in the present case because, while maybe not super-important, it was harmlessly sitting there and was probably created (by Tim Porter) in the belief that information about BRICS, which has supported a lot of category-theoretic literature, might be of interest to someone. Was it not linked to from other articles?

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    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTime4 days ago

    Re #2: This article was not linked from other articles.

    BRICS existed in 1994–2006, has been gone for almost 20 years.

    Criteria for deletion: marginal relevance, not linked from other articles, no obvious articles that could link to it.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTime4 days ago

    I count about 17 nLab pages that refer to “BRICS” (here), but indeed none of them actually links to the nLab page of that name.

    Generally, we rarely hyperlink publication venues. (One exception is Cahiers which gets linked to from time to time.)

    So it’s a corner case.

    We could have kept the page “BRICS”, made it itself link to www.brics.dk, and hyperlinked those 17 pages to it. Maybe that would be worthwhile given that “BRICS” has come to mean something different since, which might lead to confusion.

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTime4 days ago

    So some good criteria I can think of – and I’ll second Urs’s recent vote of thanks to Dmitri for all his recent work in clearing out dross – is that an article gives the nLab a bad look, or was an experiment from early days which no longer suits our purposes, or is undeniably irrelevant and sticks out like a weed, things like that.

    Generally, though, I think the urge to delete someone’s unharmful contributions, perhaps all the more so in cases of venerable contributors who have a record of creating good content, deserves a second thought. It’s not as if we’re running out of room on the nLab. Either help the little plant grow, or else leave it be if one isn’t motivated to do that, but killing the plant might be unnecessary if it’s doing no harm.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTime2 days ago

    Have added some minimum of text to the entry and linked all pages mentioning “BRICS” to it. Just for completeness.

    diff, v3, current

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTime1 day ago

    Thanks for doing this, Urs.

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